Background: Activities in daily living (ADLs) disability triggered by aging population and chronic diseases in the middle-aged and older adults has become a major public health challenge.

This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character ...

pCenter for Innovative Care in Aging, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA qDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA rDepartment of ...

Learn about a hobby and brain challenge that boosts memory, sharpens reasoning, and helps seniors sustain mental sharpness.

Puzzles to Play (PuzzlestoPlay) announces 450 new word search puzzles added to download. Puzzles to Play, an online resource for free word ...

New York (3.4 million): Office of Children and Family Services Click on your county for a local list of what the state terms “family type homes for adults” or FTHAs. Pennsylvania (2.4 million): ...

Executive functioning skills are the mental processes that help us plan, focus, remember instructions, juggle multiple tasks, ...

Free and printable! When I saw these ... And, I hear from so many parents who tell me that traditional holiday activities, many of which are considered fun, are anything but for their child. Such as, ...

A combination of cognitive-behavioral therapy and walking may prove effective, even though patients frequently report feeling more pain and fatigue, at least in the beginning, when starting a ...

Methods: This systematic review aimed to assess the effects of methylphenidate on multiple cognitive and neurobehavioural domains in adults with TBI. The search conducted across five databases yielded ...

Head injuries are one of the most common causes of disability and death in adults. The injury can be as mild as a ... and can usually resume normal activities in a few days. Usually, no interventions ...